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Japan invades Manchurian
The start of the Japanese aggression against China and Indochina. Japan intended to create a Japanese sphere, the United States responded to this by limiting isolation policies. -
Nuremberg Laws
These laws were passed by Hitler, which restricted the rights of Jews in Germany. This was the cause of the War Crime Trials, where Hitler committed suicide so he could get out of it. -
Munich Pact
British and France agreed to allow Hitler to take more land. Hitler broke the pact in less than 6 months taking all the territories. This ended the policy. -
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Kristallnacht
Nazis torched the synagogues, vandalized Jewish homed, schools, businesses, and killed 100 Jews. This can also be called the Holocaust. -
Neutrality Act of 1939
This act allowed the nation was to buy goods from the US to pay cash first. Once the nation had paid, they were allowed to take their goods. This act is also known as Cash and Carry. -
Germany invades Poland
The invasion of Poland led to France and Britain declaring Germany. The United States wanted to join the war at this time, but could not because of the Neutrality Act. FDR attempt to change this many times. -
Lend Lease Act
Congress authority Roosevelt to sell, transfer title to, exchange, lease, lend, or otherwise dispose of any government. They also created an article that FDR thought was necessary for the interest of the defense of the US. -
Atlantic Charter
Changing of Peacetime to warfare economy in the US began before the US at war. FDR and Churchill signed this contract. Self Determination and the international system of general security. -
Executive Order 8802
This order prohibited racial discrimination in the nation's defense industry. This was caused by a man named A Philip Randolph because he demanded equal access to war time jobs. -
Attack on Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor is how the United States entered into the war. The Japanese attacked the US naval base. -
Executive Order 9066
This Order authorized the internment of Japanese Americans and of Japanese descent. This was caused because Americans were scared that the Japanese Americans would bomb them again, like how they did with Pearl Harbor. -
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Battle of Midway
In this battle, the United States' strategy was island hopping. The goal was to get close enough to Japan to launch air attacks in preparation to invade. The victory of Midway stopped the Japanese advance. -
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Operation Torch
The invasion of North Africa launched to free the Mediterranean Sea from German. This operation was also to protect the oil fields in the Middle East. -
D-Day
The invasion of Normandy on D-Day provided western fronts. This allows Germany to engage with the Soviet Union, Italy, and France. -
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Battle of The Bulge
This battle was the last offensive of Germany and the end of the Nazi. The United States, Britain, and the French marched to Berlin from the west and the Soviet Union from the east. -
Korematsu v. United States
A Japanese American by the name of Fred Korematsu refused to leave America per Order 9066. He took this matter to the Supreme Court but lost because upheld Japanese internment is Constitutional. -
Yalta Conference
This conference was between the Big Three; Churchill, FDR, and Stalin. These were the final plans to defeat Europe and began a discussion of post-war European Plans -
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The Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Truman, the president at the time, decided to drop an atomic bomb on Hiroshima (8-6-1945) and Nagasaki (8-9-1945) to prevent the necessity for landing and fighting in Japan. This would cause too many American lives to be lost. -
United Nation is created
The United Nations was an intergovernmental organization tasked to promote international cooperation and to create and maintain international order. The United States was a key role in helping organize and starting the United Nations. The idea of the United Nation was based on the League of Nations the was proposed by Woodrow Wilson. -
Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine pledged to contain communism in Europe and the United States. This doctrine supplied financial and military aid to Greece and Turkey. -
Marshall Plan
The United States offered financial aid to promote economic rebuilding and prevent the fall of European countries to communism. This was caused because Western Europe would elect socialist and communist governments. -
Israel is Established
The United States supported the self-determination of the Jewish people the creation of the Jewish state. This demonstrates the impact of German war crimes on the conscience of the United States and the World. -
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Berlin Airlift
The United States supplied the people of Belin with food, water, and other supplies by airdrops. This was caused because of the blockade that The Soviets created. -
NATO
The United States established the North Treaty Organization or NATO. It established military alliances aimed at the Soviet Union. -
Soviet Union tests Atomic Bomb
This led the United States to the development of the Hydrogen Bomb. This was the beginning of the Nuclear Arms Races. -
Korean Conflict/War
The communist of North Korea invaded South Korea. The United Nations voted to demand a ceasefire and support police action to defend South Korea. A formal peace negotiation ended with North Korean forces contained above the 38th parallel, a containment victory. -
Soviet Union launches Sputnik
The space race began when the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1. The start of the space race, xenophobia, and the launching of Sputnik set the stage for round two of the Red Scare. -
National Defense Education Act
The National Defense Education Act promoted science and math skills and counteract the feat that consumerism had made Americans less competitive. Also was less likely to the arms race. -
The Berlin Wall
Germany was divided after WW2 into the east and west, the west was controlled by the Allied and the east by the Soviets. The Berlin Wall was a symbol of The Cold War. -
Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan
The Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan to prop up a friendly government. Because of the containment policy, the United States supported the Afghan resistance movement. -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
The Cold War ended because of the Soviet Union changing, the strain of the arms race, and the Afghan war on the Soviet economy. All of these were the cause of the Fall of The Berlin Wall because the wall symboled The Cold War.